There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.